Paradroid

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rogifan_new said:

Let me take a wild guess that had Hillary Clinton won Tim Cook wouldn't have wrote this letter. 

You make a good point.
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Its not a good point at all. Read the article - Trump has said some very strange stuff directly about Apple in the campaign. 

And if Hillary had won there wouldn't have been any need for a letter to the staff because she didn't suggest that she had a problem with Mexicans, Muslims and various other minority groups.

For those reasons, Tim felt the need to reassure his staff. 

Its going to be fascinating to see Trump attempt to deliver on his promises of reversing globalisation and bringing jobs back to America. I hope he does it, but I doubt it's even possible. Luckily I get to watch that one from the safety of another country. 

I find the concept that if it's not upgradeable it's not Pro a bit bizarre. Pro doesn't just mean IT person. There are lots of other industries like Media, Science, Finance etc where people need lots of power but aren't going to open the machine themselves to upgrade the internals. 

I've built my own computers many times but do it a lot less now because most of my "computers" are devices like iPads and games consoles.

im not saying it shouldn't be upgradeable, just that it not being upgradeable doesn't make it non-pro. 

docno42 said:

Paradroid said:
You want me to do the job of Apple's design department, and accuse me of talking crap?

It wouldn't hurt to at least have some ideas for a direction they could go - otherwise you're just throwing out vague assurances that there is some sort of "improvement" without anything to back it up.  The unlimited unknown - how bold and risky of you.

Oh I have ideas. But if I share them with you, you'll then have a perfect straw man opportunity to disagree with my comment on design direction. No thanks.

It always makes me laugh when they send out that Christmas email every year, suggesting I buy my loved ones $500 worth of iPad or even $1k worth of laptop. 

I'm lucky enough to earn decent money but even so, it's not how Christmas goes down in our house. An Apple Watch leather strap is more like the right price range. 

The iPhone 7 is a glitch fest at the moment:

- terrible battery life
- missing home screen icons
- onscreen camera button not working
- Bluetooth and lightning headphone bugs

Probably the worst new iPhone experience I've had. OS updates needed urgently especially for the battery problems. Mine gets nowhere near the specs or the review benchmarks. Struggle to get more than 1.5 - 2 hours usage in a day. Have seen the iPhone 6 do 4-6.